As President Nixon would say, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: Nunns and Carters can’t win in Georgia in 2014 without Obamas and Clintons. Jason Carter is running for governor and Michelle Nunn seeks an open U.S. Senate seat.

The exodus of the Georgia Whites from the Democrats to the Republicans was completed when Congressman Jim Marshall was defeated by Austin Scott. Marshall tried to paint himself as a non-Democrat Democrat by running from Barrack Obama and then Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He basically tried to become Sam Nunn. Sir, I staffed in the Georgia congressional delegation that was led by Sam Nunn…I met Sam Nunn during my high school years…we went to countless Hill receptions with Senator Nunn.. you, Jim Marshall, was no Sam Nunn. You don’t run from Obama and expect my communities support.

Like it or hate it, the formula for November 2014 Dem success in Georgia is:

(n + ca)/(o x cl)=w or (Nunns + Carters) / (Obamas x Clintons) = wins

First, Jason Carter and Michelle Nunn are good and decent candidates on their own. However, Georgia is a Red State because the Democrat base is so very shaky. The four pillars of strength that support the Dem foundation nationally are two Obamas and two Clintons. To be honest, Michelle needs to be a flying Nunn crisscrossing the peach state with Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama or both. As Bernie Mack would say, “you don’t understand”…. Michelle Obama still has rock star status with Dem voters; she could pack a college football stadium with only three days notice.

The reality is this: rural Whites are a lock for the GOP but suburban voters of all colors are on the table if the Dems come out with a moderate agenda focused on job creation. Who can deny that Bill Clinton’s economy plan left the nation in great shape. On Meet The Press this past weekend, the question was “would Hillary run as a continuation of the Obama years or restart of the Clinton years?” I say it would be the beginning of the Hillary years.

The far Right should stop tripping on Hillary Clinton’s age because she would take office at the same age as President Reagan and a few years younger than John McCain would have been if he won.

Michelle Nunn is on that chill style like her father and that won’t get out the bloc of voters that almost won Georgia for Obama. That’s okay because unlikely voters have a lot to think about this year….the motivation is there. They just need a little knowledge and wisdom from the blogosphere; we call it “that fire.” Don’t sleep: Nunn’s senate race will be studied by Team Hillary as they plan to take parts of suburbia back from the GOP.

This election year promises to be crazy and we should list some of the craziest aspects. The two major political parties would be crazy not to seek two groups in the South. Democrats need rural Whites and Republicans need a 5 to 10% of the Black vote.

The GOP seems more like an elitist club than a national party but changing demographics indicate that they should seek some minority support. It’s crazy if the GOP future plans center around suppressing Black votes or hoping people of color stay home on election day.

Democrats would be crazy to think anything is happening in the South without considerable White involvement. Georgia Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is the great White hope for the Dems and congressional candidate Vivian Childs should be the great Black hope for the GOP.

I don’t think southern legislatures fully realize how crazy upset people are with “Stand Your Ground’ laws. Poor people would be crazy not to realize that Dems are trying to give healthcare to everyone. You know that people without any health insurance simply use the emergency room as a doctor’s office and that is more expensive in the long run.

I am a southern gentleman and politics should never compromise southern gentility. The way the GOP is starting to attack Hillary Clinton makes me cringe. While I don’t care for the politics of Sarah Palin, I never said crazy things about her. Can my friends on the right say the same thing about the Obamas and Clintons.

Georgia is one of the best place in the world for Blacks. Only crazy politicians run for office here without seek support from Blacks and Whites. The statements candidates make in the primary could serve as motivation for the other side in November. If you don’t think Hillary Clinton can get enough women voters to win several Southern states, you must be crazy. If you don’t think that Blacks won’t vote when Obama isn’t on the ballot, crazy should be your middle name.

Finally, you must be crazy to think that I am a Republican because I am voting in the GOP primary tomorrow. I vote every time and want my vote to have the maximum impact. In my area, the primary action is on the GOP side. Plus, Blacks shouldn’t pull all of our eggs in one basket or allow anyone to take us for granted.

On Mother’s Day, I acknowledge that being a mom to successful children is the best aspect of Vivian Childs’ campaign. Rep. Sanford Bishop is as polished and urbane as President Barrack Obama but not being a parent left him with a third person view a parenting (can you believe all the idiots who breed like rabbits but quality DNA like Bishop, Oprah and me doesn’t continue.)

Since I last worked for Bishop, he has become a grandparent by marriage and a radiance comes over him when he speaks of his granddaughter—he sincerely wants a better nation for her.

Al Gore ran for president in 1988 to focus national attention on climate change. In 2008, Rep. Tom Tancredo sought the Republican nomination for president primarily to put illegal immigration on the national stage. I think that Vivian Childs should use her campaign to emphasis issue regarding America’s children and it should start with school choice.

For most of my life, I personally felt that private schools in the South were created so White kids could avoid attending school with Black kids. You know, I might have preferred a properly funded all Black school in the 1970s during a transition phase but that didn’t happen. In the last few years, I have been following a young man from our summer program as he play private school sports all around south Georgia. Surprisingly, many of the current private schools are based on faith and class size rather than race.

Parents should have the option of using a school voucher to select the best learning environment for their kids. However, I do draw the line with vouchers for home schooling because I still think that attending school is a chance to monitor the home treatment of young people.

Actually, most public schools are nice places with well-prepared teachers and staff. I will say what elected officials won’t: the problem is poor parenting. Some people are having kids before they are prepared for that awesome responsibility. I see babies pushing baby carriages—children who should be somewhere playing with an Easy-bake oven. Why do people put Air Jordans on babies who can’t walk yet? Really? And you need public assistance? Child please. (I bet you want hear Vivian Childs or Sanford Bishop pumping up a crowd with that type real talk and getting the crowd to respond “child please.”) Today, teachers are also parental figures. Secondly, education starts at home: speak proper English 24/7, turnoff the video games, engage in intelligent discussions nightly at the dinner table and push reading.

There is too much testosterone in the Georgia congressional delegation. In the last 50 years, only two women have represented Georgia in congress—Cynthia McKinney and Denise Majette. Vivian Childs’ candidacy will encourage more women to seek high office and future public policy will have more motherly sensibility.

You can’t seek to replace Rep. Sanford Bishop if you aren’t prepared to fight with your party when they are wrong. Bishop doesn’t get enough credit for those battles. Case in point: the GOP needs to provide a real alternative to Obamacare and that plan should address pregnancy prevention (which is different from abortion.) Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama emphasis that a way to reduce abortion is to reduce unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Conservatives feel that providing birth control encouraging premarital sex. While I don’t have all the answers, I do know that half-raised kids are messing up the community, messing up the schools and filling the jails. Do you know that it cost more to put a person in federal prison for a year than it cost to pay a teacher?

Democrats say that Republicans aren’t pro-life; they are pro-birth. Once a child is born into poverty, GOP cuts in the nutrition programs in the Farm Bill would have kids go hungry. Correction, they can eat at school if they clean the cafeteria later. Child Please. You know Bishop isn’t sweating this election because he welcomes the opportunity to debate anybody on his legislative decisions. The debate this summer and fall is going to be good and if the GOP voters in the second congressional district fail to select Childs as the nominee, it would just another reason for Hillary Clinton to court moderate women voters in Georgia.

Everyone has agendas this election year and there is much to sort out. My agenda is based on the best interest of Georgia and the South but the word trump has always been a cornerstone of this blog.

To me, some factors “trump” other factors and the factors of race, faith, region, country, money, and gender can be prioritized 100 different ways by 100 different people. For example, a local congressional candidate from a different party knows person X’s interest better than a candidate from X’s party from the other side of the area. At the end of the day, Colin Powell and Condi Rice care more about Black people than the Red party. Actually, they joined the Red party because in their hearts they felt they were helping every American.

If I won the sweepstakes, I would use some of that money to convene a summit on the Black agenda for this election year in middle Georgia. The meeting would include folks from both major political parties and of every racial background. While the “Changing Mindset” outline found as a tab at the top of this blog would be the central theme, some other matters need to be put on the table.

Voter Suppression: It’s clear that some leaders of the GOP plan to counterbalance changing demographics by making it hard for certain people to vote. President Obama recent comments on this topic should be heard.

Georgia 2nd Congressional District race: As quiet as it is kept, many Black Republicans know that the voter suppression efforts from their party is hogwash. These good Americans believe that the conservative agenda is in the best interest of everyone and that silly tricks and shady methods drive reasonable people away from their party.

GOP primary voters have the opportunity to select a candidate, Vivian Childs, who might plant the seeds that change the whole political arena. Let’s be honest, the GOP often pushes Black candidates who seem a little bland on the Black hand side. With the trump matter in mind, Vivian Childs, Andrew and Deborah Honeycutt, Karen Bogans in Savannah and Michael Murphy are Black Georgians who are conservative but they lived in the Black world, attend Black churches, and likely have Black gold fish. I personally saw Mrs. Childs in fellowship with her sorority sister, the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta.

Fraternity and sorority trumps political party in my community and you can best believe that the Childs campaign will never function in a way that dishonors her bond. Okay, I worked for Rep. Sanford Bishop and I was dumfounded by the ugliness of some previous campaigns—hell, if they kept the debate civic they would have won. Childs vs. Bishop would have a residual benefit of showing how to disagree without being disagreeable.

President Obama On the Ballot: Oh yea, the primary this spring and the general election in the fall are referendums on the president in some way. The Republicans want control of the U.S. Senate because with both houses of Congress they can make the rest of his hair gray. If the Senate candidates are constantly attacking Obamacare, their election is a vote on Obamacare. To me, the people who elected Obama in the first place should vote this year also.

Senate Candidate Breakdown: I want to put a few points about these candidates on the table…as I see it.

Michelle Nunn– Don’t sleep….she can win. While she will be running from Obama, she can’t win without a massive pro-Obama turnout. Her father wasn’t big on being a political party person and hopefully is the same way. She might do well with suburb Atlanta GOP soccer moms.

Paul Broun– The Democrats so so so very much want him to be the GOP nom because he has a record of being ugly to candidate and President Obama. He would drive large numbers of ify voters to the polls for the dems and the national fundraising for Nunn would be huge courtesy of his youtube videos.

Jack Kingston– If region trumps party with me, Kingston is the people’s champ from south Georgia. Georgia political power is now centered in north Georgia and that is scary because you can count the Black folks up there. Jack served Black Savannah and Savannah State University for years and dude has lived in part-time in D.C. Because he likes to play that Andy Griffin role, Kingston knows Black and White rural Georgia inside and out. The economic engines of our state outside of Atlanta are agriculture and military. Those Tea Party people would cut both of those areas to the bone but Jack knows what’s up. He should come to our summit and explain that statement about free lunch kids cleaning the schools.

Karen Handel– She would hold the GOP women vote against Nunn. She should play up her hard knock life story. Who knew that she attended Fredrick Douglas High School in suburban D.C. The lady was chair of the Fulton County Commission. Her campaign clearly doesn’t want to tap her potential support in our community. Did I mention that she went to Doug?

David Perdue– this political newcomer is was balling in the private sector. Perdue was CEO at Reebok and at Dollar General. DG sure brings revitalization to some rough areas and heaven knows the jobs are needed. His campaign website contains a list of companies he has helped: Rockport, Hanes, Levi’s, Polo, Coach, and Greg Norman. I kid you not; I can get dress in a Polo shirt, a pair of Levis, Hanes drawers, old Rockport Dressports, and Greg Norman footies. Look for forward to Dems asking if these companies gave back to our communities.

Governor race: This race will be a referendum on Governor Nathan Deal and the GOP in the state houses refusal to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. We need to hear the GOP alternative to Obamacare because current the uninsured are using the emergency room as a doctor’s office and that’s costly.

State House and State Senate: With secondary regard for party, stay on your state legislators’ behinds because voter suppression and stand your ground start with them.

While working in the yard, I drew a connection between weeding the lawn and outreach efforts. We spend so much money and time lawn mowing but to me we cut the grass every three weeks but cut the weeds every ten days—get it.

The weeds and the grass are mixed in together. Grass is the largest growing thing on earth and it will fight for itself if given the opportunity to put down deep roots. If you have a bald spot, good grass will eventually crawl in to help. If you cut the grass to low, rain will wash away the top soil and ugly sand will remain.

I enjoy a health friendship with many southern conservatives and wonder why they don’t expand into the moderate range by getting the craziness 5% to dial down their viciousness. If they got rid of that 5%, they could gain 25% of the moderates in the center.

After pulling weeds for hours, I noticed that my lawn cart says “Scotts” on the front. It’s a sign…I tell you! The two most important congressional outreach GOPers from the South are South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Georgia Rep. Austin Scott. Tim Scott is a traditional conservative who happens to be Black. He could do this and that to bridge the racial and partisan divide…if he wants.

Austin Scott was a freaking rock star in the state house and he even caught heat from the Klan for pushing to change the state flag. Of course, a young guy like that who defeated a Blue Dog Dem has the formula for outreach. But, do they turn to him for the game plan? Some southern bloggers fell that Austin has fallen in line to avoid a Tea Party primary challenger from the far Right. I say he is the logical choice for U.S. Senate in the future if he returns to his statehouse brand of conservative leadership. Those Scott fellows, no relations, could be Scotts Turf Builders if the GOP wants to weed out the uglys and get back on the important lawn…the one at the White House.

On a related note, growing stronger young men is also like a lawn. We spend so much money reacting to the weeds (thugs) that we forget the actual grass (good kids.) When you remove the weeds, it’s vital that you go down to the roots. If grass has deep roots, it can withstand drought and flooding. These kids today have short roots and they are therefore easily washed away. We oldheads are the rich topsoil and topsoil hates supporting weeds. In public policy, we should spend less time and energy on weeds and redirect those efforts to healthy stronger grass because without a strong lawn the foundation of the house/community is at risk.

NBC’s The Blacklist was sneaky to have doctored photos of former GOP Rep. Allen West and current Senator Ted Cruz on this week’s episode. They were implying that an international spy/criminal was involved with them. That was dirty.

If you never heard of West, you need to google the brother with a quickness because he will be in the Albany, Georgia area tonight and in Columbus on February, 28. Yes, the guy who seems to dislike President Obama more than anyone has, is and will always be my from Georgia Black brother and nobody tells me not to talk with other Blacks in the political/policy arena. (Cue Willie Hutch’s “Brothers Gonna Work It Work” from the 1972 film The Mack.)

West’s current job seems to be slamming everything Obama to the delight of the far Right. Goldie in the Mack told his brother (Walter Mosley/T.C. from Magnum P.I.) that no one was closing him out of his business and the far Right seem to feel the same way about their grind.

Some Blacks will listen to the far left Dems say that West, Herman Cain, Condi Rice, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, JC Watts and all Black Republicans should be avoided—putting them on a blacklist. That’s not going to happen and I think that brother Clarence Thomas is the most misunderstood Georgia brother of all time—read my blog post on Thomas’s book about his grandfather before you open your Black mouth. (That’s how we talk down here…no harm.)

I bet West gets a packed house in south Georgia this week. When I went to hear then RNC chair Michael Steele at congressional candidate Austin Scott’s headquarters, the GOP crowd was thin. Oh, they didn’t want to hear that smooth, less rage style. And I will always remember that the GOP bus didn’t come to Albany until someone other than Steele was on it. Rep. Sanford Bishop barely defeated his GOP opponent that year and heaven knows that Steele might have tipped the balance. The opponent was smart but he didn’t dare risk upsetting the Tea Party because obviously most Blacks are naturally liberal—including the RNC chair. Geez

There shouldn’t been a blacklist when anyone is trying to solve the problems facing this state and this nation. Allen West needs to be at the table and sitting between Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Rev. Al Sharpton. I have always believed that Team Obama sent a “stay away for now” message to Sharpton, Minster Farrakhan and Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Well it’s time for everyone to come together because it seems like open season on our youth. A smart sista tried to tell me last week (in her West Indian accent) that we shouldn’t teach our youth to adjust to those with a Stand Your Ground mentality. Well, I have been a Black male for fifty years and being right on the side of a 7-11 store sometimes means that wrong people will end you.

President Obama launches an effort today called “My Brother’s Keeper” aimed at helping young men get the skills to attend college and get good jobs. Who can be against that?

I hope GOP primary voters in Georgia’s second congressional district will select Vivian Childs as their nominee because she and Rep. Sanford Bishop would have a healthy and helpful six months dialog about building bridges. I am sure we would learned that most southern Blacks really want the same things. It’s going to be the summer and fall of Changing Mindsets and everyone should be there. Helen Blocker Adams, mayoral candidate in Augusta, always promotes having everyone together; get to know every street, corner, country club, church and teen center. Helen is wants right about our lovely state.

A conservative named Vivian Childs is running for the U.S. House seat held by Rep. Sanford D. Bishop and I say great. Her candidacy seems like that ant with the rubber tree plant but sometimes it’s about the journey.

The people of Georgia have received over three decades of quality service from SDB and I, for one, wish he would have been selfish and left a few years to bring his golf score down and his personal wealth up.. think 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

Bishop and the Blue Dogs are important targets to the GOP because without them the Dem Team would be as liberal as the far Right pretends they current are. If their silly behinds listened to me, they would have push for SDB to be Agriculture Secretary to get the seat but they wanted to play hardball.

Mrs. Childs’ candidacy seems like the type candidacies that Michael Steele wanted to create to gently approach certain areas but the Tea Party’s brassiness happened to that. Oh, candidate Obama was so fortunate to be in the Congressional Black Caucus with Bishop because he had to model some of his moderation after him.

Childs and her family seem like wonderful, successful people and her conservatism is rooted in the Black communities of our past—when you knew who you were and whose you were. In those days, shame still existed and you admired how someone “carried themselves.”

Here is the real talk: we need some candidates who spend their time listening to and talking with everyone rather than preaching to the choir; candidates who put a positive spin on the limited role of government and fiscal realities. A Bishop vs. Childs race would have a healthy impact on our state and introduce conservative ideals to a new segment of the population. Some people would discover that they are actually more conservative than liberal and that Bishop was moderate to conservative all along.

I am sure the other candidate in the GOP primary in the 2nd District is a decent fellow but Childs opens doors of possibilities than would normally be closed. Ultimately, giving the people choices and options is so beneficial. The first Black GOP member of Congress from Georgia since reconstruction might very well be someone who was introduced to a different way of governing by VC’s running for congress….plant the seed.

On a sly note, Bishop having a solid opponent forces him to fully engage his campaign apparatus and that move helps the Dem ticket statewide. Wink